An e-commerce website has products ranging from thousands to lakhs to crores. Products are generally categorised so that users can easily browse them. With so many products on a webpany portal which is going into crores it won’t be easy for users if only categorisation of products is done. In each category there would be lakhs or even crores of products. There should be better ways so that it makes easy for users to find their products.
In a country like India, where not only number of online buyers are increasing day by day but more and more sellers are also joining various e-commerce platforms to sell and showcase their products. Now it’s not about a big brand selling online. Not only SMEs but very small business, household businesses, small arts and crafts people are also coming to these webpanies to sell their products. This has led to some classification problem. How a product is classified? This could be discussed in detail.
Product classification problem
With crores of products from branded, non-branded, local, season sellers a good classification of product is a huge task. What is happening is that a website is selling 1 product under different names, a product variant is being sold with different names, spellings, attributes. Non-branded, local or imported products are being sold by multiple sellers with different sub-categories, names and attributes. A buyer is often confused which one to buy, which one has correct details.
Tips
same product – 1 identity unique id
tags
attributes
similarity
buying behaviour